Natural hazards · Franklin

Franklin, OH natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Franklin comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Franklin?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Franklin to be higher than in 34% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tornadoes.

Inland flooding49%Tornadoes27%Earthquakes11%Strong wind6%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Franklin faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

49% of expected damage

Below average · higher than 35% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Tornadoes

27% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 24 years in the area

Earthquakes

11% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 73% of U.S. places

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 82% of U.S. places

Recorded about 3 times a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesWildfireLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Franklin flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Franklin.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Franklin isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Darke County.

Disasters that hit Franklin

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Darke County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Franklin itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into FranklinDeclared for Darke County only

Darke County has had 11 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often severe storms and winter storms.

Around Franklin

Franklin and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Franklinmostly inland floodingLow

Van Burenmostly inland floodingLow

Adamsmostly inland floodingLow

Newtonmostly inland floodingLow

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Franklin is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Franklin’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the Township of Franklin. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.